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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women

Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …

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The value of earning for learning: performance bonuses in immigrant language training

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009–2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial...

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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden – education, returns to education and overeducation

Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

hetero-geneity, in overeducation, in returns to education and in birth-country coefficients, unexplained by wage models. Both …, men to a larger extent than women. Returns to education are generally lower for non-European childhood immigrants than for …

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Can political inequalities be educated away? Evidence from a Swedish school reform

Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; T Dawes, Christopher - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …

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Paid parental leave to immigrants: An obstacle to labor market entrance?

Vikman, Ulrika - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

This paper evaluates how access to paid parental leave affects labor market entrance for immigrating mothers with small children. Paid parental leave together with job protection may increase labor force participation among women but if it is too generous it may create incentives to stay out of...

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Naturalizations and the economic and social integration of immigrants

Engdahl, Mattias - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

I study the effects of naturalizations on labor market outcomes and family formation. The results show that naturalizations are associated with improving economic outcomes for immigrants from outside the OECD. The strength of the correlation varies depending on the country group and gender. A...

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Age at migration and social integration

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

particular at the marriage market. There are also non-trivial effects on employment, but a more limited impact on education and …

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Can you stay at home today? The relationship between economic dependence, parents’ occupation and care leave for sick children

Boye, Katarina - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children between parents in Sweden and the first to attempt to examine the importance of differences in parents’ work characteristics. The study uses register data for parents with children born in 1999-2002 to analyse...

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Labour supply responses to paid parental leave

Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...

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The effect of own and spousal parental leave on earnings

Johansson, Elly-Ann - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of parental leave – both own and spousal – on subsequent earnings using different sources of variation. Using fixed-effect models, and in line with previous results, parental leave is found to decrease each parent’s future earnings. Also spousal leave is...

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